DECEMBER 1917 — 1918

1 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich — active participant in the October uprising in Petrograd; was commandant of the Smolny—Tauride district, chairman of the commission for combating pogroms, banditry and counter-revolution. From 1917—1920 — manager of affairs of the Council of People's Commissars.
2 This refers to the attempt on V. I. Lenin's life on the night of December 31, 1917 to January 1, 1918, when he was returning from a rally accompanied by Swiss communist F. Platten. F. Platten shielded Vladimir Ilyich's head and was wounded in the arm.
On the night of January 2 (15) to January 3 (16), 1918, an extraordinary session of the Council of People's Commissars took place, at which the question of opening the Constituent Assembly and the attempt on V. I. Lenin were discussed. The Commissars congratulated V. I. Lenin on being saved from the danger that threatened him. The Council of People's Commissars recognized it necessary to issue a warning that "the workers' and peasants' government will answer with terror if there are repeated attempts on the representatives of the Council of People's Commissars" (Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the CC CPSU).

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH M. S. URITSKY
[January 5 (18), 1918]

To Uritsky:

At what hour was the volley fired?
10?
KM—10J ?
What part of Shpalernaya?
Between Liteynyy and Znamenskaya?
Not far from Liteynyy in the direction toward the Tauride—

Approximately at 10¼—10¾ between Voskresen­skaya and Tavricheskaya on Shpalernaya. The glass was shattered on the left side. The volley was from above, apparently from the right.
M. U.

Answer here!
Lenin
1 M. S. Uritsky was appointed in November 1917 as commissar over the "All-Russian Commission on Matters of Elections to the Constituent Assembly." The note was written on the day of the opening of the Constituent Assembly.

LENIN COLLECTION

MEMORANDUM TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

[January 1918, no earlier than January 7 (20)]

Of course, it is necessary to arrest them.
And in order to convene the Central Executive Committee, send this note to Sverdlov.²

Lenin

1 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich in his note informs V. I. Lenin of anarchistic actions by a group of sailors—participants in the murder of the ministers of the Temporary bourgeois government A. I. Shingarev and F. F. Kokoshkin in the Marinskaya Hospital on the night of January 6-7, 1918, asks V. I. Lenin's opinion about the arrest of the sailors and proposes to convene a session of the Central Executive Committee in connection with these events (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collection of Works, vol. 50, pp. 25-26, 411).
2 Y. M. Sverdlov — chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

MEMORANDUM TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

January 8 (21), 1918

To V. D. Bonch-Bruevich

Write me a note: how are things with the arrest of the murderers. Is it true that Kreys¹ do not want to hand over?

Lenin

1 Kreys — sailor-anarchist, one of the participants in the murder of the ministers of the Temporary bourgeois government A. I. Shingarev and F. F. Kokoshkin.

DIRECTIVE TO L. N. STARK

January 8 (21), 1918

Comrade Stark!

On the basis of the report of comrade Radek,² I request that you contact comrade Shotman (member of the collegium of posts and telegraphs)³ on the question of providing radio for the most important communications of the PTA⁴.

Lenin

DECEMBER 1917 — 1918

1 L. N. Stark — worker at the press bureau under the Council of People's Commissars; from January 13 (26), 1918 — commissar of the Petrograd Telegraph Agency.
2 R. M. Radek — assistant to the secretary of the international department of the Council of People's Commissars.
3 A certificate to A. V. Shotman of his appointment as a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs was signed by V. I. Lenin on the same day, January 8, 1918.
4 Petrograd Telegraph Agency.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH F. E. DZERZHINSKY

[January 9 (22), 1918]

Why do you not provide a draft decree
(1) on the complete prohibition of the export of machine oil and the like to Finland?
(2) on a revision commission for supervision?
(3) on sending agents to Tornea to catch sellers?

1 The correspondence of V. I. Lenin with F. E. Dzerzhinsky took place at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on January 9 (22), 1918 during the discussion of the question of imports and exports from Finland.
F. E. Dzerzhinsky — chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution, Sabotage and Speculation under the Council of People's Commissars (Cheka).
2 This refers to the struggle against smugglers and speculators at the Swedish border in Tornea — at that time the only place of contact between the Soviet Republic and the outside world.

We came to you today with a report on this matter.

MEMORANDUM TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

January 16 (29), 1918

Russian subject Samuel Hatkin (Samuel Hatkin), who lived in 1906 in Riga and made the acquaintance there of Platten,² who vouches for him, requests permission to enter Russia.

I request that you grant him entry.

Lenin